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TIL in 2001, a young boy in Florida had his arm bitten off by a shark. His quick-thinking uncle not only rescued him but also wrestled the 200-pound shark to shore. The boy's arm was retrieved from inside the shark, and after an 11-hour surgery, it was successfully reattached.

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GAwgQ TIL Sir Paul Nurse, English geneticist and Nobel Prize winner, had his application for a US green card rejected due to the short-form UK birth certificate which he submitted not naming his parents. When he applied for a full birth certificate he discovered that his sister was actually his mother.
0dOER TIL about the Putmayo Genocide. The Peruvian Amazon Company, a rubber company founded in 1907, enslaved the native population of the Putmayo region and forced them to work under awful conditions and brutal punishments, causing terrible suffering and death.
er44 TIL Titanic survivors were charged $1 per word to send telegrams from their lifeboat. One man used his last dollar to send the word Safe to his mother
grdJA TIL the United States had a National Raisin Reserve from 1949 until 2015, when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional due to the raisins being seized without market compensation.
neryB Why is it that at the very moment that you should be the most relaxed, you suddenly get seized with the feeling of falling through the air? It's not uncommon. About 70 percent of people regularly face this experience, which is technically known as a hypnic jerk.